Will Yogurtgate Destroy Nancy Pelosi As Democratic Corruption Charges Heat Up Capitol Cafeteria?

Thank God for Republican aides who were good enough to take a moment off from rubber-stamping no-bid Iraq contracts and aiming to get corporate tax breaks for oil companies to dig into frankly what is the most shocking example of blatant corruption in the history of the United States Congress.

Here's what we know for sure, and more details are emerging hourly.

Speaker Pelosi as part of her "greening the Capitol" and I frankly am also in favor of keeping the buildings all white, but I'll let Rush fight that battle, so Nancy decided to make the food at the cafeteria a little healthier, a little lighter.

Let's stop right there.

Who does she think she is? With obesity rates soaring across the country, why should Capitol Hill be any different? And with Dennis Hastert leaving, our GPPC index is dipping like the Dow - that's Gross Pounds Per Congressman for you outside the beltway types.

Anyway, it gets worse.

Not only is the Speaker General forcing health food down the yaps of Congressmen and their staffers, she figured out a way to, and I quote, "line the pockets of...Gary Hirshberg, a significant player in Democratic politics."

Makes me sick.

I have seen this Hirshberg character at work, I once went to his house and off the record, the fridge in his kitchen is literally stocked with Stonyfield yogurt products, he calls them samples, but you and I know what they are - corruption, plain and simple.

With shame, I can tell you that he forced his graft on me and it was all I could do to carry the strawberry smoothies to my car.

Here's more of the story:

Republican aides have raised questions about why the cafeterias now stock Stonyfield Farm yogurt, speculating that the move would line the pockets of the company's CEO, Gary Hirshberg, a significant player in Democratic politics.

Sick isn't it? There's more here but I frankly, it's for adults only.

Can you imagine? They might be selling hundreds of those little yogurt cups a month, Gary personally pockets, you better be sitting down, as much as a penny a cup, my god, over the course of forty or fifty thousand years, he could literally make like $10,000 off this deal

My advice for Speaker Pelosi is to resign in shame,

As for you Mr. Hirshberg, get that yogurt classified as a bio-chemical weapon in the war on terror, and call those Republican aides back. That's where the serious coin is.

Comments

[mjjcpa]

Gee, and I thought the last congress didn't accomplish anything.

[MaxundMoritz]

It appears that nothing will change until the bodies of this corrupt Riff-Raff are piling up in the morgues.

[dwillisno1]

Judging by the troll comments on this blog, its safe to say that the
dems want to increase their seats in the Congress, while the repubs want to increase the size of their seats in Congress.

[hopeless277]

In answer to your question, God, I hope so.

[gaila]

"I really don"t like Nanny Nancy telling me what I can and cannot eat for lunch. If I want to eat unhealthy, I should have that choice!" the aide fumed.

Sure you should, dude. After all, if you get heart disease, you won't have to pay for your treatment, the taxpayers will. You shouldn't have to resort to eating healthy food like the rest of us who may one day have to go on the Republican health plan, AKA the "Don't Get Sick" plan.

[SILLYME]

Impeachment is off the table but yogurt is in?

Come on Pelosi!

[jazzman]

I knew those Democrats were as corrupt as Republicans. It only took a couple of Republicans in the cafeteria to expose the rot that lies right beneath the surface of all Democrats. I'm glad we now know the depth and breadth of the lengths the Democrats will go to curry favor with their donors. I think the Republicans should grab those yogurts out of the refrigerators and throw them into the ocean just like their patriotic forefathers did at Boston Harbor. The gaul of Nancy to stock the cafeteria with the biggest producer of organic all natural yogurt in the US because its owned by a Democrat. She should have stocked it with Danon, artificial additive yogurt instead more in keeping with the Mitt Romney spirit.

Oh wait a minute...what is that I hear? Stoneyfield Farms is a subsidiary of Danon. We'll I'll be damned.

[MysticInd]

Some times it's the little things that make a difference...

Now which way do I want to go with this thing of Yogurt-gate...

How about to ones tummy or gut

And that means it ends up as s... Healthy s... even. What has the world come to or gone to...

oh wait I hear a 10 yr anniversay has just passed... S... it up or slurp it up...

[davidrusso]

Strikes me that if a Republican speaker made an operational change that brought increased business to a company whose CEO was a GOP supporter, this site would no doubt claim corruption was afoot.

Why doesn't the same skepticism hold here?

[suki21693]

Has Blackwater gone into yogurt production?

[doctoracula]

Well, the Republic is surely in its last throes if the Third In Line to the Presidency has fallen into the pocket of Big Yogurt.

Seriously, I'm moving to Canada or something.

[S1m0n]

We went sent Nancy to Washington with a mandate to "change the culture", Yoghurt wasn't what we had in mind.

[Mutex]

While Pelosi allows bill after funding bill to be approved to sustain and extend the American Empire;

While tens of thousands of innocent people are tortured and killed around the world;

While the Constitution is shredded under the 'unitary executive theory';

Pelosi, this beacon of the loyal opposition, makes her historic contribution by pronouncing:

Let them eat yogurt!

If there is any hope left for this experiment in democracy Cindy Sheehan must unseat this charlatan.

[CaptainObvious]

It would seem that if she were really interested in improving the health of the country, she should consider putting some Peach-Mint Pie back on the table?!?!

[td]

Boner was much happier when he was passing out tobacco lobby checks on the House floor after voting as the tobacco lobby ordered. Talk about unpalatable & unpronouncable. But "bribe" is easily pronounced.